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The Sioux have no other leijal chiim to the quarry site than that 

 of quarrying the pipestone, a privilege of v^'hich they 



fhT'sioux^"""" ''^ yea^'^y t'^1^6 advantage to a limited extent. The 

 Yankton Sioux, sometimes accompanied by their 

 friends, the Flandreau Sioux, continue (1900) to visit the quarry 

 and dig pipestone, coming usually in June or July. They establish 

 their lodges on the reservation near the excavations, and stay from 



Fig. 133. Commercial pipe and Iriuket maker at work near the quairiis. 



one to two weeks, procuring the pipestone, which they manufacture 

 into pipes and trinkets of great variety. 



The Indians sell much of the stone to the whites, who have taken 

 up the manufacture of pipes and various utensils and 

 ripo?'"''"^^ ■'"'*' trinkets, using lathes and other devices to aid in the 

 work, and in a letter by Mr. Bennett dated 1S02 it is 

 stated that not 1 per cent of the pipes then made and disposed of 

 were of Indian manufacture. White traders began the manufacture 

 of pipes from the pipestone many years ago, and according to Dr. 

 F. V. Hay den these were used by the fur companies in trade with 

 the Indians of the Northwest. At a meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society in 18GG Ilayden stated that in the two years just 

 passed the Northwestern Fur Co. had manufactured nearly 2,000 

 pipes and traded them with the tribes of the upper INIissouri. 



The pipe maker show^n w^ith his lathes and drills in figure 133 was 

 established near the quarry at the time of the writer's visit in 1892, 



